Italy

Donatella Di Pietrantonio was born and grew up in a small village in the Abruzzo region, where she still lives and practices as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories,...

Greece

France

Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains...

Germany

Helmut Dubiel studied German literature and philosophy at the universities of Bielefeld and Bochum. He was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and New York University from 1998 to 2002, before returning...